Working Group on Romanization Systems

Romanization of Belarusian geographical names

The Conference,

Noting that in Belarus a system of romanization for Belarusian geographical names was adopted in 2000 and was revised in 2007,

Recognizing that the system is linguistically sound and that it has been implemented in maps and gazetteers of Belarus,

Recommends that the system, as set out in the conference room paper entitled “The Roman alphabet transliteration of Belarusian geographical names”,¹ be adopted as the international system for the romanization of Belarusian geographical names.